<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>File Utilities: libxfce4util Reference Manual</title>
<meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot">
<link rel="home" href="index.html" title="libxfce4util Reference Manual">
<link rel="up" href="libxfce4util-utilities.html" title="Xfce Utilities">
<link rel="prev" href="libxfce4util-Resource-Config-File-Support.html" title="Resource Config File Support">
<link rel="next" href="libxfce4util-Miscellaneous-Utilities.html" title="Miscellaneous Utilities">
<meta name="generator" content="GTK-Doc V1.33.1 (XML mode)">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF">
<table class="navigation" id="top" width="100%" summary="Navigation header" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5"><tr valign="middle">
<td width="100%" align="left" class="shortcuts">
<a href="#" class="shortcut">Top</a><span id="nav_description">  <span class="dim">|</span> 
                  <a href="#libxfce4util-File-Utilities.description" class="shortcut">Description</a></span>
</td>
<td><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="home.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Home"></a></td>
<td><a accesskey="u" href="libxfce4util-utilities.html"><img src="up.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Up"></a></td>
<td><a accesskey="p" href="libxfce4util-Resource-Config-File-Support.html"><img src="left.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Prev"></a></td>
<td><a accesskey="n" href="libxfce4util-Miscellaneous-Utilities.html"><img src="right.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td>
</tr></table>
<div class="refentry">
<a name="libxfce4util-File-Utilities"></a><div class="titlepage"></div>
<div class="refnamediv"><table width="100%"><tr>
<td valign="top">
<h2><span class="refentrytitle"><a name="libxfce4util-File-Utilities.top_of_page"></a>File Utilities</span></h2>
<p>File Utilities — miscellaneous file-related utility functions.</p>
</td>
<td class="gallery_image" valign="top" align="right"></td>
</tr></table></div>
<div class="refsect1">
<a name="libxfce4util-File-Utilities.functions"></a><h2>Functions</h2>
<div class="informaltable"><table class="informaltable" width="100%" border="0">
<colgroup>
<col width="150px" class="functions_proto_type">
<col class="functions_proto_name">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="function_type">
<span class="returnvalue">gboolean</span>
</td>
<td class="function_name">
<a class="link" href="libxfce4util-File-Utilities.html#xfce-mkdirhier" title="xfce_mkdirhier ()">xfce_mkdirhier</a> <span class="c_punctuation">()</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="function_type">
<span class="returnvalue">gchar</span> *
</td>
<td class="function_name">
<a class="link" href="libxfce4util-File-Utilities.html#xfce-create-shared-thumbnail-path" title="xfce_create_shared_thumbnail_path ()">xfce_create_shared_thumbnail_path</a> <span class="c_punctuation">()</span>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>
<div class="refsect1">
<a name="libxfce4util-File-Utilities.includes"></a><h2>Includes</h2>
<pre class="synopsis">#include &lt;libxfce4util/libxfce4util.h&gt;
</pre>
</div>
<div class="refsect1">
<a name="libxfce4util-File-Utilities.description"></a><h2>Description</h2>
<p>File Utilities</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1">
<a name="libxfce4util-File-Utilities.functions_details"></a><h2>Functions</h2>
<div class="refsect2">
<a name="xfce-mkdirhier"></a><h3>xfce_mkdirhier ()</h3>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="returnvalue">gboolean</span>
xfce_mkdirhier (<em class="parameter"><code>const <span class="type">gchar</span> *whole_path</code></em>,
                <em class="parameter"><code><span class="type">gulong</span> mode</code></em>,
                <em class="parameter"><code><span class="type">GError</span> **error</code></em>);</pre>
<p>Creates the specified directory <em class="parameter"><code>whole_path</code></em>
, but unlike the <code class="function">mkdir()</code>
function from the standard C library, if any of the parent directories
of the <em class="parameter"><code>whole_path</code></em>
 do not exists, they are created as well.</p>
<p>If the directory specified by <em class="parameter"><code>whole_path</code></em>
 already exists, this function
performs no operation and simply returns <code class="literal">TRUE</code>.</p>
<div class="refsect3">
<a name="xfce-mkdirhier.parameters"></a><h4>Parameters</h4>
<div class="informaltable"><table class="informaltable" width="100%" border="0">
<colgroup>
<col width="150px" class="parameters_name">
<col class="parameters_description">
<col width="200px" class="parameters_annotations">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="parameter_name"><p>whole_path</p></td>
<td class="parameter_description"><p>path to the directory to create.</p></td>
<td class="parameter_annotations"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="parameter_name"><p>mode</p></td>
<td class="parameter_description"><p>file permissions to use for the newly created directories.</p></td>
<td class="parameter_annotations"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="parameter_name"><p>error</p></td>
<td class="parameter_description"><p>location where to store GError object to, error are returned
in the <code class="literal">G_FILE_ERROR</code> domain.</p></td>
<td class="parameter_annotations"> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>
<div class="refsect3">
<a name="xfce-mkdirhier.returns"></a><h4>Returns</h4>
<p> <code class="literal">TRUE</code> on success, else <code class="literal">FALSE</code>.</p>
</div>
<p class="since">Since: <a class="link" href="api-index-4-2.html#api-index-4.2">4.2</a></p>
</div>
<hr>
<div class="refsect2">
<a name="xfce-create-shared-thumbnail-path"></a><h3>xfce_create_shared_thumbnail_path ()</h3>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="returnvalue">gchar</span> *
xfce_create_shared_thumbnail_path (<em class="parameter"><code>const <span class="type">gchar</span> *uri</code></em>,
                                   <em class="parameter"><code>const <span class="type">gchar</span> *size</code></em>);</pre>
<p>Creates the shared thumbnail path for the file that corresponds to the given <em class="parameter"><code>uri</code></em>

and <em class="parameter"><code>size</code></em>
. No checks are made regarding the existence of the thumbnail.</p>
<p>It is the duty of the caller to free the returned string.</p>
<div class="refsect3">
<a name="xfce-create-shared-thumbnail-path.parameters"></a><h4>Parameters</h4>
<div class="informaltable"><table class="informaltable" width="100%" border="0">
<colgroup>
<col width="150px" class="parameters_name">
<col class="parameters_description">
<col width="200px" class="parameters_annotations">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="parameter_name"><p>uri</p></td>
<td class="parameter_description"><p>the uri of the file whose shared thumbnail we want to find.</p></td>
<td class="parameter_annotations"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="parameter_name"><p>size</p></td>
<td class="parameter_description"><p>the thumbnail size (e.g. normal, large).</p></td>
<td class="parameter_annotations"> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>
<div class="refsect3">
<a name="xfce-create-shared-thumbnail-path.returns"></a><h4>Returns</h4>
<p> a string with the thumbnail path or NULL if the <em class="parameter"><code>uri</code></em>
could not be converted to
a local filename.</p>
</div>
<p class="since">Since: <a class="link" href="api-index-4-18.html#api-index-4.17.1">4.17.1</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="refsect1">
<a name="libxfce4util-File-Utilities.see-also"></a><h2>See Also</h2>
<p>https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-File-Utilities.html</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<hr>Generated by GTK-Doc V1.33.1</div>
</body>
</html>